Two years ago, the challenging Norwegian artist Jenny Hval got together with multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden to form a new duo called Lost Girls, and they released their debut album Menneskekollektivet. Since then, Hval has released her solo album Classic Objects and the one-off single “Buffy,” and now she and Volden are getting ready to head […]
Watch Pulp Play Unreleased Song “Hymn Of The North” In Sheffield
The Pulp reunion tour has been popping off in fits and starts across the UK and Ireland since May, with Jarvis Cocker and friends (minus the late Steve Mackey) playing together for the first time in a decade. Saturday in Sheffield, on their second night at Utilita Arena, they spiced things up by ending the […]
Jane Birkin Dead At 76
Jane Birkin has died at 76. The singer, actress, and style icon was found at her home in Paris, as Le Parisien reports. Birkin was born in London in 1946; her mother was stage actress Judy Campbell. She started acting as a teenager and became a part of the Swinging London scene in the 1960s. […]
Watch The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft Recreate The “Bittersweet Symphony” Video For Sky Sports F1 Promo
The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft recreated the “Bittersweet Symphony” music video for a Sky Sports F1 promo. Ashcroft filmed the video a couple days before the British Grand Prix 2023, which took place last week. Instead of walking through the streets of London, Ashcroft made his way around the Silverstone Circuit, where the race took place. […]
The Frantic Majesty Of Brain Tourniquet And Killing Pace
How do you write an 11-minute powerviolence song? How is that possible? As a genre, powerviolence is defined, at least in large part, by its brevity. Bands challenge themselves and each other to come up with short, disorienting bursts of anxiety. A song might be 45 seconds long, and it might switch riffs and tempos […]
The Hazmats – “Wondered”
The members of London’s Hazmats come from the UK’s punk and hardcore world; they’ve played in bands like Violent Reaction, Big Cheese, Game, and Chubby And The Gang. But the Hazmats don’t sound anything like those bands. Instead, they make bright, jangly indie-pop that calls back to the halcyon days of college rock. Last year, […]
Slash Joins Demi Lovato On New Rock Version Of “Sorry Not Sorry”
Ever since the 2022 release of her guitar-heavy 2022 album HOLY FVCK, Demi Lovato has been on a tear releasing new, rock-driven versions of her earlier pop hits. In March, she shared a rock reimagining of 2013’s “Heart Attack,” and in May she dropped a new edition of 2015’s “Cool For The Summer.” Now, Lovato […]
Justin Timberlake Joins Coco Jones On New “ICU” Remix
Last fall, R&B luminary Coco Jones released “ICU,” which came produced by DJ Camper and appeared as the second single on her November EP, What I Didn’t Tell You (she also released a deluxe edition in January). More recently, Jones has been teasing an “ICU” remix guest, who turned out to be none other than […]
Prewn – “But I Want More”
Prewn is a project based out of Northampton, Massachusetts led by Izzy Hagerup, and next month she’s releasing her debut album, Through The Window, via Exploding In Sound Records. Today, we’re getting its lead single, “But I Want More,” the sort of raw, immediate recording that makes one sit up and take notice: Hagerup’s quivering […]
Desert Daze Cancels 2023 Festival
The psych-focused Southern California festival Desert Daze has long been regarded as one of the best live music events going, a sentiment I can affirm after attending myself last year. Unfortunately, there will be no Desert Daze in 2023. The fest just announced that it is taking a year off and will return from Oct. […]